U+1C22 "ᰢ" Lepcha Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C22 "ᰢ" Lepcha Letter Wa is a consonant in the Lepcha script, used to represent the sound /wa/ or the consonant 'w' within the Lepcha language, which is spoken by the Lepcha people in parts of Sikkim, India, and neighboring regions. This character belongs to the Lepcha block of Unicode, which was added to support the writing system of this indigenous Tibeto-Burman language, notable for its distinctive round shapes and unique syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C22 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Wa |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c22 |